Dr.Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard, M.D. (4 March 1908 – 1 May 1976) was an American civil rights leader, fraternal organization leader, entrepreneur and surgeon. He was one of the mentor's to activists such as Medgar Evers, Charles Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, Amzie Moore, Aaron Henry, and Jesse Jackson, founded Mississippi's leading civil rights organization in the 1950s, the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, and played a prominent role in the ...
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Dr.Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard, M.D. (4 March 1908 – 1 May 1976) was an American civil rights leader, fraternal organization leader, entrepreneur and surgeon. He was one of the mentor's to activists such as Medgar Evers, Charles Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, Amzie Moore, Aaron Henry, and Jesse Jackson, founded Mississippi's leading civil rights organization in the 1950s, the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, and played a prominent role in the investigation of the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till. He was also president of the National Medical Association and chairman of the board of the National Negro Business League.
Howard was born in Murray, Kentucky to Arthur Howard, a tobacco twister, and Mary Chandler, a cook for Will Mason, a prominent local white doctor and member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Mason took note of the boy’s work habits, talent, ambition, and charm. He put him to work in his hospital and eventually paid for much of his medical education. Howard later...
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